Career development Flashcards
What is trait-and-factor matching theory?
EG Williamson based on his knowledge of Frank Parsons, the father of guidance. It relies on test and assessments to match traits, aptitude, and interests with a given occupation.
What is John Holland’s six personality and six work environments career typology?
This is visually depicted with a hexagon that includes 6 personality types and work environments. It goes by the acronym RIASEC.
- Realistic - machine shop worker or dog walker
- Investigative - researcher or chemist
- Artistic - singer or author
- Social - teacher or counselor
- Enterprising - sales personnel or business owner
- Conventional - secretary or file clerk.
Congruence between the person and the job is emphasized and the person is categorized using three digit codes such as SEC
What is Donald super’s self-concept and developmental stage theory?
Also referred to as a life-span, life-space model. Vocational development is the process of developing and implementing a self-concept. As the self-concept becomes more realistic and stable, so does vocational choice and behavior. People choose occupations that permit them to express their self-concepts. Work satisfaction is related to the degree that they’ve been able to implement their self- concepts.
Development tasks
- crystallization - forming a general vocational goal
- specification - move from tentative to specific preference
- implementation - complete training, enter employment (25-44)
- stabalization - confirm choice through work experience
- consolidation - advance in career
His life rainbow helps clients conceptualize their roles as a child, student, leisure, citizen, worker, spouse, homemaker, parent, and pensioner.
What is Anne Roe’s early childhood needs-theory approach?
Says vocational choice is related to personality development at a young age. Is the client person-oriented (teaching) or nonperson-oriented (computer programming)? Roe was influenced by Freudian psychoanalytic doctrines (importance of the parent-child relationship) as well as Maslow. Roe’s work has generated a wealth of research and the studies do not totally support this approach – however, it is extremely difficult to control the longitudinal variables involved. The Vocational Interest Inventory (VII) and the Career Occupational Presence System make use of Roe’s fields and level taxonomy.
What is John Krumboltz’s learning theory of career counseling (LTCC)?
This was initially dubbed as a social learning theory. Said 4 factors can be used to simplify the career development process:
- Genetic endowment and unique abilities
- environmental conditions and life events
- learning experiences (either Pavlovian, social learning theory, or Skinnerian)
- Task approach skills (problem solving cognitive responses, and emotion patterns)
Research validates the original social learning theory but additional studies are needed to back up the newer learning theory of career counseling. This approach to counseling is considered a cognitive approach
What is the Ginzburg group’s (also known as Ginzburg and Associates. Also known as Ginzburg, Ginsburg, Axelrad and Herma) developmental approach?
This theory was created by an economist, a psychiatrist, a sociologist and a psychologist and is the first developmental approach to occupational choice. Said the developmental stages are:
- Ages 11 and under - fantasy
- early adolescence - tentative
- 17-early adulthood - realistic
The group later dropped their original hypothesis that career choice was irreversible.
What is Mark Savickas’s career construction postmodern theory?
Savickas, who worked with Donald Super, is critical of most traditional theories. His work is heavily rooted in narrative therapy in which the client’s life is viewed as a story he or she has constructed and intervention focuses on recurring themes to reauthor that story.
What is Social cognitive counseling theory (SCCT)?
This theory focuses on how one’s belief system impacts career choice
What is Linda Gottdredon’s theory of circumscription and compromise?
This is a developmental approach taking one’s childhood into account. There are two phases:
- Theory of circumscription - phase 1, rule out certain jobs not acceptable for gender, stereotypes, and social class
- compromise - phase 1 when you change your mind or major if career path is not truly realistica
Concept of social space refers to the zone or territory of jobs where he or she fits into society.
What is Edgar H. Schein’s 8 career anchors theory?
Career anchors manifest approximately 5-10 years after a person begins work. Career anchors are based on the self-concept, abilities, and what the person is good at, and these anchors guide future career choices. Originally Schein identified 5 anchors but now 8 are used:
- autonomy/independence
- security/stability
- technical/funcitonal competence
- general managerial competence
- entrepreneurial creativity
- service/dedication to a cause
- pure challenge
- lifestyle
When did lifestyle and career development begin to be emphasized?
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized since the beginning of the counseling and guidance movement and are still major areas of concern. Note that the beginning of the guidance movement is associated with the work of Frank Parsons, who started the Boston Vocation Bureau in 1908 just before he died.
Who is Frank Parsons?
Parsons is considered the father of guidance. He started the Boston Vocation Bureau in 1908 just 9 months before he died. HE was a Cornell graduate who later became Boston’s chief law clerk and then the dean of a liberal arts college. His landmark work, Choosing a Vocation was published posthumously. The Bureau was set up as.a civic service house and had hours in branches of the YMCA and the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union.
How does career counseling trailblazer John O Crites feel about career counseling vis-a-vis therapy?
Crites feels that the need for career counseling exceeds the need for therapy and he feels that career counseling is more difficult than performing psychotherapy and can actually be therapeutic sine there is a clear positive correlation between career counseling and personal adjustment.
What is the glass ceiling phenomenon?
The glass ceiling phenomenon suggests that women are limited in terms of far they can advance in the world of work. The glass ceiling effect is a form of occupational sex-role stereotyping that can limit women’s career. This concept is somewhat analogous to the lavender ceiling phenomenon which purports that the same basic notion is true for LGBTQ individuals. Gender-aware career counseling is a must.
What is a “displaced homemaker”?
This is a phenomenon in which a woman with children who was a homemaker is now currently in need of work to support her family. Women who have made the transition from homemaker to jobs outside the home could be referred to as reentry women.
How do students in high school and middle school feel about career counseling?
A very high proportion of students in HS and MS want career counseling, though career interests are often more stable after college. Students would generally like help in terms of career planning, and 50% of all college students have career difficulties.
What is pervasive indecisiveness?
This is when someone has a lifelong pattern of severe anxiety relating to decision making. This can make deciding on a career much more difficult.
What is Victor Vroom’s motivation and management expectancy theory?
Vroom suggests that an employee’s performance is influenced by:
- valence (will the work provide rewards like money, promotion, or satisfaction)
- expectancy (what does the person feel he or she is capable of doing)
- instrumentality (will the manager actually give the employee the promised reward such as a raise?)
What are dual career families?
Dual career families are families in which both partners have jobs. Dual career families have higher incomes than the so-called traditional family in which only one partner works. That said, when both partners work, there are more problems relating to household chores and responsibilities. Today, over 54% of marriages are dual-wage earner marriages – and the figure is around 60% in families with children. This is in stark contrast to the 20% statistic from 1950.
Dual career couples often report a lack of leisure time which can turn into additional stress for both partners – though research shows that in most cases, dual-career households manage to spend as much time with their children as households with a single wage earner.
In a dual-career family, when do women typically have children?
In dual-career families, the woman is typically secure in her career before having children. This is in contrast to the traditional model in which women had children before entering the workforce.
What is the difference between vocational guidance and career counseling?
Guidance is seen as a developmental and educational process within a school system.
Career counseling is viewed as a therapeutic service for adults performed outside an educational setting.
How does a bachelor’s degree impact earning potential?
On average, a worker with a bachelor’s degree earns over $10k a year more than a worker with a high school diploma. Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders have the highest percentage of individuals with a bachelor degree, followed by white people, African American people, and Latino/as.
Has the number of workers with a high school diploma increased or decreased?
Increased
Have blue collar jobs increased more or less rapidly as white-collar positions?
Blue collar jobs have increased more slowly as white-collar positions. This is likely based partially on the fact that the US has become.a service economy vs. focusing exclusively on the production of goods.